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Ubisoft Releases More Details on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Ubisoft's recent live-action trailer for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier revealed a squad loaded with powerful next-generation weaponry. And according to a new fact sheet from the developer, the trailer is an accurate depiction of the arsenal players will unleash in the game.

Optical camouflage, exoskeletons, and advanced combat drones are among the current real-life prototype weapons used in the game, as well as "personal mortars" that fire multiple guided rockets from your soldier's shoulders.

"Armed to the teeth with an arsenal of real-world high-tech weaponry only in prototype today, you are an F-16 on legs, trained to lock on to your objective even in the world's most complex, high-risk warzones," Ubisoft said in a statement.

In its fact sheet, Ubisoft further detailed some of the tweaks that are being made to the Ghost Recon franchise, including:

Natural Cooperation
Instantly coordinate combat against 360-degree threats: link-up with your Ghost teammates in a formidable formation at the push of a button. Move-and-shoot-as-one with your friends or AI teammates with no training and no complex orders system. Benefit from your teammates' high-tech abilities and combine them to unleash the power of an army at the pull of your trigger.

Epic Solo and Co-op Campaign
Join the Ghosts as Kozak, a fresh recruit whose elite unit is the United State's best and only means of retaliation when a nationalist coup unseats Russia's legitimate president . Experience multiple aspects of the war from the unique perspectives of a high-level bodyguard, an engineer, a civilian and more. Play the single- or split-screen cooperative campaign across multiple theaters as the shadow of global conflict creeps across Northern Europe and beyond.

Sharkey says: The live-action trailer caught my attention. I've never been a big fan of the Ghost Recon franchise, but I'm very interested in playing as an F-16 on legs. Hopefully Ubisoft will add some interesting new twists to the crowded genre.